“Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?” is a song by the band Derek and the Dominos from their 1970 album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Eric Clapton wrote this in England with Bobby Whitlock. Whitlock explains how they got together:
I was with Delaney And Bonnie. I was the last one to leave that organization; everybody else did Mad Dogs And Englishmen.

I stayed with them and helped them do a couple more albums, then the pressure got to be too much and Steve Cropper suggested I go see Eric and see what he’s doing. He actually bought my ticket to England. I called Eric and said, ‘Hey, what are you up to,’ and he said, ‘I’m just getting my hair cut.’ I said, ‘I need to get out of here, is it all right if I come visit?’ He said, ‘Sure, come on over,’ so I was over there 2 days later. I was just hanging with him, we got around to picking and singing, and the next thing I know, we decided to put a group together. He and I were writing, it just happened real natural for us because we already had a friendship developed through the Delaney And Bonnie thing.”